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Does anyone know a good place to find fonts for use with Allegro? They've been surprisingly difficult to google.

[Rainer Deyke]

I know nothing about Allegro fonts, but if you use Freetype, you can display TrueType fonts (which ought to be a lot easier to find).

[Bjorn]

Yeah, either use a library to display truetype fonts, for example AlFont [1] (a wrapper around FreeType2) or you can create your own font from a truetype font with TTF2PCX* [2].

But you might already know about this possibility and just be interested in some cool or funny premade fonts that you can use directly with Allegro. In that case, I cannot really point you anywhere.

*) When using TTF2PCX in WinXP/2000, run the program in Win98 compatibility mode for it to work correctly.

[1] http://nekros.freeshell.org/delirium/alfont.php
[2] http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ttf2pcx/index.html

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(XMark here)

heh, well I was kinda hoping there was an easy Allegro load_font command or something. I guess I'll put fonts in the "do it later" pile. :)

[Sirocco]

Dunno... I've always been in the habit of using my own fonts, along with a custom font handler/blitter I wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of five years ago :)